James Ryder Randall

Poet, born in Baltimore, Maryland, USA. He was first a teacher, then a journalist. His lyrics, which in the Civil War (1861–5) gave powerful aid to the Southern cause, include ‘Maryland, My Maryland’, ‘Stonewall Jackson’, and ‘There's Life in the Old Land Yet’.

James Ryder Randall (born January 1, 1839 at Baltimore, Maryland, United States;

He is most remembered for writing the poem Maryland, My Maryland, which is also the reason for his being called the "Poet Laureate of the Lost Cause". It became a war hymn of the Confederacy war hymn after the poem's words were set to music during the Civil War by Jennie Cary, a member of a prominent Maryland and Virginia family.